I think giving birth on your back is less for convenience of modern medicine and more because if you have an epidural you can't really walk or move around a ton.

If you've had an ultrasound in the first trimester, they have probably checked that against your LMP. As long as they're not more than a week disparate, they're not really concerned, but usually they will go by how you're measuring on ultrasound. This is only true in the first trimester. Someone else said dating…

I can google. This may be slightly outdated, but this study shows rates 1.5 to almost 3 times as high.

So, I think that telling her that they were going to call the cops is a bit much, but if I were the OB I would very clearly state out that she was putting herself and the baby at risk for these reasons, and that not proceeding with the procedure was "against medical advice." To top it all off, I probably would refuse…

I can't tell if you're actually mad or not...

I feel the same way as you. My mom had dropped out of high school and has had to work incredibly hard for shitty pay all her life to get by. Once as a 13 year old, I rationally told her that her life would have been so much better if I hadn't been born. She (erroneously) interpreted that as "I wish I had never been…

This is fascinating.

Not only did baby test positive at birth, but once they found her again and found her viral loads undetectable, they went back and reanalyzed samples from birth, and then double checked again, and then looked in the kids blood again to look for fragments of viral DNA and RNA which they found. So she was definitely…

I like her and so it makes me *really* happy that I own the dress she is wearing!

Why is it her job to rehab him? And if his recreation of choice is sex, which is done in a safe and consensual manner, and he has to pay to get that, then why is that a problem?

Does anyone know the college in the photo? Looks like Bates, but I'm not positive.

Anecdotally, I do not know anyone who has regretted it, and I know a fair number of people who have transitioned. I know that doesn't hold a lot of weight, but I figured I'd chime in.

I find Lena attractive and think she has a pretty normal body shape. I certainly wouldn't consider her fat or ugly, so I feel like I am in bizarro land reading this article... Like why wouldn't someone want to see her naked or sleep with her? Then again, I'm also the sort of person who thinks naked pong pong would be…

So you're advocating that if you're attracted to people of the same sex, you should just never have any sort of romantic or sexual relationship. Because if you're gay, then you don't deserve the same things that straight people take for granted. I see.

+1.

I think it is a great test. It is much more sensitive and specific than quad screening. The results are reported differently though- either positive or negative. The downsides in my opinion, are that it is not diagnostic (99% detection for Down syndrome and T18 and 92% detection for T13) and that it only gives info…

IVF isn't just plucking one ovum, often women are on medications to stimulate ovulation so that multiple eggs can be harvested at one time. I think the issue is less with the egg, and more with the sperm. In normal circumstances, the sperm has to compete and swim to get to the egg. So sperm that are abnormal and…

...and I'm done. I'll just go spew about a different article now.

This is a really obnoxious reply. I don't give a shit why grown men spit on little girls. It's not right, no matter the reason and does not exhibit any respect at all for women, which was the point of my comment. I'm also not "spewing falsehoods" nor did I ever say the ultra-orthodox were the Taliban... so...

It's possible. If there was an extra chromosome 13, then the prognosis would be very poor, but we can also see mutations or deletions that are benign. We can also see two chromosomes switch pieces with each other and as long as all the genetic material is still there, we wouldn't expect there to be any developmental…